CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

A couple verses in this chapter address raising children. The key here is consistant example. Rules without relationship breed rebellion, rules with relationship breed obedience. It is important to discipline, but even more important to be disciplined in our discipline. What are the things you would tell your children not to do. If it's ok for you it will be ok for them. In fact children will generally take to the next level that which is modeled for them (good or bad).

Sometimes parents send their kids to church even when they don't attend themselves. When those children become adults there is a good possibility that they will stop attending unless they have obtained a personal relationship with Christ. Equally as troubling is when parents ground they're children from church. Church should be fun, but that's not the reason we go to church. We go to church to encounter God and hopefully obtain wisdom. If your going to ground a child, ground them from something they don't desperately need but they want. Maybe we make some decisions because unconsciously we don't see the real value ourselves.

If you are a parent you have a great task and responsibility. You will, I repeat will mess up sometimes. You will also make some great choices. The best you can do is gain wisdom yourself and ask God to help you every step of the way.

See or blog you tomorrow,

PB